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4 days left on japanese auction starting bid at $.01, buy out at $5000.If you are intrested we can probably cut a good deal with the seller, this car has gone up for auction 2 times now with no sale.Shipping Tariff, etc. ~$3500 more.

To beable to ship a car thats less that 25 years old it must be disassembled in Japan and reassembled in the US for it to be imported legaly. That way its considered a kit car. For a better explanation of the process ktsubaru can explain.

I just help him with finding customers, i don't know the process very well myself for whole cars.

To beable to ship a car thats less that 25 years old it must be disassembled in Japan and reassembled in the US for it to be imported legaly. That way its considered a kit car. For a better explanation of the process ktsubaru can explain.

I just help him with finding customers, i don't know the process very well myself for whole cars.

Disassemblling does not mean that "destroying car". I've seen a few kit cars look like never disassembled before.

As awllla explained it, that's NHTSA and other government agencies regulation. Japanese cars originally built for USA is different from JDM, as some of may you know already, and that's the main reason why NHTSA regulates the different rules for vehicles built for non-US market.

So the car basically gets stripped down and sent in "easy to handle" parts. Like shell, doors, hood, trunk, bumpers, engine and drivetrain, suspension. And but on a ship/plane and sent stateside. Who then puts the pieces back together?

So the car basically gets stripped down and sent in "easy to handle" parts. Like shell, doors, hood, trunk, bumpers, engine and drivetrain, suspension. And but on a ship/plane and sent stateside. Who then puts the pieces back together?

We do have experienced people who do all the process, clearing customs, assembling vehicle, pass the inspection and get it titled.

Money matter might be another concern, but I will give you the info which enables you to find where I am (100%) once the order is confirmed.

perhaps I've mis-interpreted something here, but how in the world can a manual transmission cost $10,000?~Erik~

BTW, my favorite from that website...even through I don't have an extra $30k sitting around...

That Legacy is HOT I'm glad u like the wagon!!

For transmissions:I'm not a mechanic so I don't know exactly what they do to make that transmission, but according to that friend in japan, they build "Dog Transmission" start from scratch, at Subaru WRC parts manufacturer nearby Subaru plant over there. (I had been there before though) I don't know what u guys do to the transmission here. but I looked at the picture at Takata website (the one shows the parts) for that transmission parts and the price is like $1000, and I need to estimate the shipping cost. I will give you a quote if you are really interested buying that parts.

There are Legacies that have a Dual Range in them in the JDM... I don't see those being worth over $10k.

If the parts are manufactured in USA, there is not much cost on shipping & tariffs. Shipping a huge qty of parts will reduce the shipping cost per lbs or kgs. This is how the HKS or other JDM parts brands to manage to sell the parts with reasonable price.

If you are going to get JDM parts as an individual, small qty, the shipping cost will be expensive and that is why the price tends to get more expensive than you see here.